Petition to Repeal Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) Fails

[JoethePleb]

Today Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced that a petition to repeal a nondiscrimination ordinance for the LGBT community, called HERO, has...
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15538/petition-to-repeal-houstons-equal-rights-ordinance-hero-fails

[Gothmog]

1. This is great news but this petition would have lost anyway

I just looked at the Burnt Orange story and it seem that Jared Woodfill did a really sloppy job here. From the article

On Friday City Attorney David Feldman said that it appeared that many of the over 5,000 pages with more than 30,000 signatures seemed questionable with regards to the requirements laid out in the city charter.

Issues with a large number of the petitions included: petition circulators who were not valid Houston voters, signatures that were collected from non-Houstonians, and some valid signatures that were collected before the first official day of June 3rd.

In the end the City Attorney reported that only 2,449 of the 5,199 pages qualified for consideration putting the number of valid signatures at 15,249, and leaving it short of the 17,269 that were required

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Jared is an idiot and was voted out as GOP chair last March.